Fastening for rail-joints.



Nn. 653,532. Patentedlul i900.

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(Na Modem @d /NVENTO'H r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE B. SOHIMMEL, OF PORTLAND,-OREGON, ADMINISTRATRIX OF FREDERICK W.SOHIMMEL, DEOEASED, ASSIGNOR TO MAURICE S. DEAN, OF PARKERSBURG, WESTVIRGINIA.

FASTENING FOR RAlL-JO|NTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 653,532, dated July 1,1900.

Application tiled December 12, 1899./ Serial No. 740,060. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNIE B. SCHIMMEL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State ofOregon, administratrix of the estate of FREDERICK SCHIMMEL, deceased,late a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Peter, in thecounty of Nicollet and State of Minnesota, who did in his lifetimeinvent certain new and useful Improvements in Fastenings forRail-Joints, do hereby de. clare the following to be a full, clear, andexact specification of the invention.

The invention relates to an improved fas-` tening for railway-joints,and has for one object to provide a means whereby angle-bars may besecurely held in connection with the rail-sections without employingnuts or nut-l locks upon the track-bolts.

A further object of the invention is to pro'- vide a plate capable ofaccomplishing this result and of simple and economic construc tion whichmay be readily and expeditiously applied and as readily detached whenoccasion may demand.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofv theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims. Y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of sections of a rail connected by theimproved device. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, taken practically onthe line 2 2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section through aportion ofa rail and the fastener, the section being drawn on anenlarged scale and on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

Angle clamping-bars 10 and 10a are placed in contact with each side faceof the web-section of the rails 11 to be connected, and the said railsand angle clamping bars or plates are provided with apertures throughwhich bolts 12 are passed. The said bolts are provided near theextremity upon which the nutlock is usually secured with a transverserecess 13 upon opposite sides, which recesses are located one above theother, producing a Abody of the plate.

angle plates or bars 10 and 10a, and in said locking-plate 14 a seriesof longitudinal open ings A is produced, the major portion ofveach ofwhich openings is in the form of a slot, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, oneend of the opening having circular walls, as illustrated at 15 in Fig.1, whereby the openings partake substantially of the contour of abuttonhole. The outer surface of the locking-plate 14 at eachlongitudinal side of the slot-sections 16 of the openings A is chamferedor recessed in such manner that an end of the shoulder 17 thus formedwill descend rapidly from a point at or near the slot-section 16 to theintersection of said section with the circular portion 15 of the openingA, so that inclined planes are produced at the top and bottom of theopenings A, as is best shown in Fig. 1.

From the commencement of the rapid decline (designated as 18 in thedrawings) the shoulders bordering the slotted sections 15 are graduallycarried upward in direction of the end walls of the openings, asindicated in Fig. 2, which slight incline loses itself in the The endwalls of the opena ings A,where the shoulders 17 meet the outer face ofthe locking-plate, may be given any desired contour.

Each extremity of the plate is provided with teeth or serrations 19 uponits inner face, as is best illustrated in Fig. 2, and these teeth orserrations are adapted to have meshing engagement with the teeth orserrations 20, formed upon the outer face of each extremity of theangle-bar 10, engagedwby the lockingplate in forming the joint; butthe'serrations or teeth on the lockingplate are so inclined at each endthat when the teeth or serrations at one end of the locking-plate are inlocking engagement with corresponding teeth or serrations on the angleclamping-plate 10 the teeth or serrations 19 at the opposite ends of thelocking-plate will be out of mesh with the corresponding teeth 2O on theangle-plate 10, as shown in Fig. 2. Consequently when the locking-plateis in locking position should a car be derailed and the wheels strike anend of the locking-plate 14 and force the meshing teeth out ofengagement the teeth at the opposite end of the locking-plate will beimmediately brought in mesh with the teeth or serrations on theangle-bar 10, thus preventing the locking-plate from becoming disengagedfrom the bolts 12.

In operation, the angle-bars having been placed in position upon therail-sections, the bolts are passed through the angle-bars and rails,with one recess 13 uppermost and the other facing downward. Thelocking-plate is then placed in engagement at its ends with theangle-bar 10 in such manner that the recessed end of each bolt will passthrough one of the circular portions in the openings A in the saidlocking-plate. I will here state rthat when forming the locking-plate 14the inner face may be arched, so that when the said plate is placed incontact with the angle-bar 10 and is to be driven to the locked positionthe extremities of the locking-plate only will contact with the saidangle-bar 10, the intermediate portion being bowed outward therefrom;but usuallythelockingplateisstraight, as illustrated. Vhen thelocking-plate is thus placed in its initial or rst position, the lowerend of the rabbeted surfaces 18 of the openings A will enter therecesses 13 of the bolts. When the locking-plate is forced to its lockedposition by driving one end-the end opposite the inclined surfaces18-with a spike-maul or other suitable tool, the inclined surfaces 18 ofthe locking-plate are forced through the recesses 13 in the bolts, andas the upper surface of the inclined plane is reached the locking-platewill have been forced to a rigid contact at every point in its lengthwith the contiguous angle-bar 10, as shown in Fig. 2, and the toothedsurfaces 19 of the locking-plate will have contact with the toothedsurfaces of the an gle-bar 10 in the manner heretofore described. Bythis construction it will be readily observed that the use of a nut andnut-lock is dispensed with and that the angle-bars at the points of therail-sections are eifectually and positively tied thereto. It will befurther observed that the locking-plate cannot be loosened by anyvibration or wave in the rails and can only be detached by violently andrepeatedly striking one of its extremities and driving the said plate toits initial or first position.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. A locking device for railway-rails, comprisin g an angle-bar havingtwo sets of teeth, and a locking-plate having means for engaging boltsand also having two sets of teeth, the teeth of the plate being sorelated to the teeth of the bar that when adjacent sets of teeth of theplate and bar are in mesh the other sets of teeth will be out of mesh,subl stantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with arailway lockingplate constructed of metal,having its inner face at its extremities provided with a series of teethor serrations, said plate being also provided with a series oflongitudinal openings between its ends, each of which openings comprisesan elongated section and a circular section, the outer surface of theplate adjacent to the elongated sections of the openings beingdownwardly beveled in direction of the circular sections, of boltsadapted to pass through the said openings and provided with aliningrecesses formed in opposite faces, and an angle-bar recessed to receivethe bolts and provided with teeth adapted for engagement with thetoothed surfaces of the locking-plate, all combined for operationsubstantially as and for the purpose specified.

ANNIE B. SCHIMMEL, Administratrice of the estate of Frederick T/V.

Schimmel, deceased.

Witnesses: l

JULIA MAXWELL, GEORGE H. DURHAM.

